"The Meaning of Tenure"
Richard F. Teichgraeber III
October 22, 2009, 4pm
British Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library)
Richard F. Teichgraeber III is Professor of History at Tulane University, whose current teaching and research interests focus on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American cultural history, especially the growth and consolidation of the American university system.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts.
"The Future of the First Amendment"
Jeffrey Rosen
September 25, 2009, 12pm
Old Main Chapel
Jeffrey Rosen is a professor of law at The George Washington University and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic.
"Government Secrecy v The First Amendment"
Geoffrey Stone
February 5th, 2009, 4:30pm
Atlas 229
Geoffrey Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School, has been a member of the law faculty since 1973. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Stone served as dean of the Law School, and from 1993 to 2002 he served as Provost of the University of Chicago.Mr. Stone鈥檚 Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (2004) received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for 2005, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for 2004 as the best book in the field of history, the American Political Science Association's Kammerer Award for 2005 for the best book in Political Science, the Hefner Award for the best book on the First Amendment, and Harvard University's 2005 Goldsmith Award for the best book in the field of Public Affairs.